Miguel de la vega



UNITED Sr 'rEsi ATENT' FFICE MIGUEL DE LA VEGA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO SANTIAGO LIMA, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN MANUFACTURE OF ARTIFICIALII 'ALLOW.

Specification fonning part of Letteis Patent No. 209,203, dated October 22, 1878; application filed December 18,1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MIGUEL DE LA VEGA, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement,

. of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to produce ar-' tificial tallow and grease, of which the principal ingredient is vegetable matter. This artificial tallow is to be used for lubricating purposes, for the manufacture of soap, candles,

.dients are mixed in producing my artificial tallow are given with reference to producing one hundred pounds of the same. For this purpose I use sixty pounds of castor-oil, ten pounds of aniinaltallow, ten pounds of vege' table oil, and twenty pounds of wheat-flour.

1 The other vegetable oils that may be used are rape or turnip seed oil, cotton-seed oil, or any other similar oil. v

The above ingredients, in the proportions stated, are to be put together in a vessel or other receptacle, and boiled about thirtyininutes by steam-heat.

After the mixture has been treated in the manner above set forth,it is cooled, and solidifies and hardens into artificial talloxv. The process of cooling canbe facilitated by pourin g cold water around the vessel or receptacle which holds the mixture.-

A greater or less quantity than one hun' dred pounds can be produced at the same time, as desired, and then the proportions of the said ingredients are to be varied accordingly, the same relative proportions, however, being preserved. A

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

. The above-dcscribed artificial tallow, composed of castonoil, solid animal fat, and other vegetable oil, and wheat-flour, in the propor tions specified, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

MIGUEL DE LA; VEGA.

' In presence of-- CHARLES G. 00E, LoUIs W. Fnos'r. 

